SOURCE: “Deleuze's Nietzsche and Post-Structuralist Thought,” in Substance, Vol. XIV, No. 3, 1986, pp. 34-50.

In the following essay, Pecora analyzes Deleuze's interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and its relation to post-structuralist thought.

We have now had roughly a quarter century of “post-structuralism”—if, that is, one can decide that something called “structuralism” ever happened, if one uses the earliest work of Derrida, Deleuze, and Foucault as some sort of historical marker, and if (perhaps most of all) one is interested in calculating such things in the first place. It is clearly possible now to take stock of this situation and explain post-structuralism to a wider audience—for example, by reading it against the current of other competing theoretical positions, as Terry Eagleton has most recently done. Yet, in many ways, the philosophical, cultural, and political density of any mode of thought that might be called post-structuralist is still weirdly difficult...